For many years, I’ve referred to Ray Bradbury as my “story father.” I’ve only recently given dedicated thought to what that actually means to me… and in the process, discovered there are other members of my story family, too!

In this episode of Sonitotum, I unpack the concept of the “creative family,” and invite you to take up this particular perspective as a way to add a level of accountability and quality control to your creative endeavors… and add meaning and impact to your work, too.

Hint: it’s all about love, really.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

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R Is For Rocket is the Bradbury short story collection that got the ball rolling for me. My mass-market paperback edition is from 1978, when I was ten or eleven years old, but I may have read a library book edition before I owned my own copy.

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a remarkable proto-transmedia mosaic novel, Always Coming Home, that is not only a very moving, brilliant work, it also stands as a worldbuilding high-water mark in my mind.

Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my ongoing serial fiction project available exclusively to my patrons. Read the first three installments and then get the rest for as little as $1.00 per month!

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Making the Episode

This episode took over seven hours to record, edit, and produce the two different editions of the show, and to prepare the social media assets and graphics and write the show notes.

Equipment and Software

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